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where Payton stood, and assuming a pugilistie attitude. “Well," said Payson, “I guess I had a right to know who objected. ** “You know now,” retorted the vanquished chairman of the ways and means committee in a crusty manner. It was a very unwarranted insult: but Payson voted against the tariff bill. An Analysis ol* the Vote. Washington Special. An analysis of the vote shows that the following Democrats voted with the Republicans on the motion to strike out the enacting clause: Arnot, Hutchins, Muller, Spriggs, Vanalstyne, and Wemple, of New York; Boyle. Connolly, Curtin, Duncan. Elliott, Ermentrout, Hopkins. Mutcliler, Patton. Post, Randall, and Storm, of Pennsylvania: Budd, Glasscock, Sumner, and Tully, of California; Converse, Foran, Geddee, Jordan. Le Fevre. Murray, Paige, Seney, Warner, and Wilkins, of Ohio: Eaton, of Conneticut; Ferrell, Fiedler, and McAdoo, of New Jersey; Findley, of Maryland; Finertv, of Illinois: Hunt, of Louisiana; and George 1). Wise, of Virginia. The changes from the vote taken when the question of consideration was raised on April 5, were: Lamb, of Indiana, and Barbour. of Virginia, both Democrats, who went over to the free-traders, and Anderson, of Kansas, and James, of New York, both Republicans. who to-day acted with their party. The four Republican votes for the bill were from Nelson, Strait, Wakefield, and White, all of Minnesota, all of whom voted or were paired in favor of the same side. There were but four pairs to-day, Bennett, of North Carolina, and Ochiltree, of Texas; Muldrow, of of Mississippi, and Valentine, of Nebraska; Riggs, of Illinois, and Nichols, of Georgia; Wood, of Indiana, and White, of Kentucky. The first named in each case being for the bill, and the last named against it. Mr. Barr, of Pennsylvania, Republican, and “Richelieu" Robinson, of New York. Democrat, both voted against the bill a month ago. but were absent and not paired. POLITICS AND STOCKS. A Mixture that Generally Results iu Disaster for the Mixer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 7. —“ You never will quit .speculating so long as you have a penny and so long as you have life,” said the wife of one of the leading chairmen of Housecommittees this morn--ing, while going down on an elevator at one of the fashionable hotels. “Well, that's all right, * he replied; “I thought I was right this time, or I should never have gone in. ” But the wife would not be pacified. Evidently the chairman-husband had been an old offender. To-night your correspondent saw the man conning the figures on the boards at Willard’s. He looked worn and downcast. The quotations did not suit him. I put the words of his wife, the character of business his committee transacts, and the columns of figures he was perusing together, and t£cy Drought this result: His committee has had for some time some proposed legislation affecting certain railroads pending. The passage of the measure would depress the stock of those roads; in fact they would cause a panic. The committee has agreed to report the bill with favorable recommendation. With this understanding the astute statesman had evidently sold that stock heavily. It has taken a decided move upward. He could not see how that could be. lam credibly informed that the stocks of no roads have been affected by what this House jdone has done, and thaft only those which have received the attention of the Senate have fluctuated dowuward. Why this can be so is found in the fact that even the railroad corporations feel that this House is not in earnest iu anything. and that none of these measures about which so must brag and bluster has been made will become laws. The stock dealers and those who buy and sell in the oapicity of eustoliters have gone ahead in their operations, and are yet doing so, as though nothing had occurred when •the House committees render reports that would- he inclined, under ordinary circumstances, to paralyze the markets. This is one of the most practical demonstrations I have seen of the truth of the assertion that the country has no faith in the ability of the House. It has long been customary, however, for members of Congress and the senators to speculate during their temporary residence here. A largo majority of the Eastern statesmen are dealing constantly. Some of them are led to do so by the inside knowledge of fu ture legislation they feel that they have. They generally touch stocks but not infrequently they have to do with grain. They are not very successful. The past has proven that the “pointers’" procured in a committee room are unreliable “pointers, '* for the reason that the party dealing is nearly always inexperienced and does not know how to handle his knowledge. An old legislative manipulator tells me that he never acts on a “pointer’ until the very edge goes off a stock —the very edge that is given a stock by the first information that is about to overtake it. He says, however, that politics and stocks don’t go together very well.

AMERIC AN MEDICAL. ASSOCIATION. I firgely Increased At tendance—Tike Regulatiou Kow Among; the Doctors. Washington. May 7.—The second day's session of the American Medical Association opeued with a much larger attendance of delegates than was present at the session yesterday. Tile list this morning contains about 1.200 names. The body of the church was entirely occupied \yith delegates, and many were compelled to find seats in the gall cries. President Dr. Austin Flint called the association to order, and Rev. W. A. Bartlett, pastor of the New York-avenue Presbyterian Church, offered prayer. The president announced the death of Dr. Gross, the eminent surgeon, and a committee was appointed to draft resolutions of respect in memory of the deceased The varioU' committees were named, and the committee appointed to report upon the resolution for securing a more competent medical sanitary service on transoceanic passenger vessels made a report. It stated that after due consideration a bill had been prepared and placed in rl i* hands of Mr. Slocum, member of Congress from New York, who hud introduced it in the House, and it had referred to the committee on commerce. Tho report was accepted and Ui e< remittee continued Dr .1. V. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania, chair man • f the section on practical medicine, read a report in which he traced the history and prae *e of medicine, materia modica and pliysi"!lie referred in severe terms to the ten<h y manifested onlho part of specialists to form cliques and exclude the rest ot the proses sioii from their deliberations. An attempt was thus iade to create an aristocracy in the most dem ratio of professions. These strictures wen received with general applause. The next address was bv the chairman of the sc- ’ i..n of obstetrics and diseases of women. Dr. T. A. Rearny, of Ohio, and Drs. BufFoad and Stevens, representatives of tine Canadian medical association, wore invited to seats on the platform and made honorary members. An invitation was read from the managers of the New Orleans Cotton Exposition for the asso ciation to hold its next meeting iu ono of the rooms of the exposition building. Dr. Henry Smith, of Philadelphia, offered a resolution which r-cited that an attempt was cuw being made to restrict, by legislation, the

practice of investigation into medical science by the use of animals. Such* restriction is not desired by medical men, and would interfere with medical progress, and the resolution provides for the appointment of a standing committee to oppose such legislation by all legitimate means. Dr. Dalton, of New York, said this movement originated with an anti vivisection society, and the object of the proposed legislation would be to stop vivisection in colleges and schools; a professor would be unable to show his class the process of digestion or circulation of the blood in a frog's foot. This result was certainly not desirable. A further object of the society, to prevent needless cruelty, would find eo operation in the medical profession. The resolution was referrred to a committee. Dr. Alwood, of St. Louis, offered a resolution which set forth objections to medical colleges advertising so generally as tending to increase the number of schools and lowering the stand ard. Dr. Benjamin, of Maryland, followed with a resolution urging upon all medical colleges the necessity of elevating the standard of education, at least so far as to require preliminary examination for a three years’ course, a register of attendance, and practical demonstrations of diagnostic skill. He said a medical student could now obtain a diploma without ever having felt a man's pulse. “Everybody wants to elevate this profession, and if we can do it by resolution, let us do it,” called out a delegate, and thitf evoked a hearty burst *of laughter. Dr. Henry, of New York, rose to speak on the question, and was expressing liis opinion in rather an emphatic way about the disgrace which medical <*ollc-g ac were bringing on the profession, when he was interrupted by a motion to lay on the table, which the president put and declared carried. Dr. Henry called out that every time this question had been brought forward, it was squelched in the most undignified manner. A delegate called attention to the fact that ho had only put this motion to lay on the table on the way. The chair put the motion again, and the result of the viva voce vote being doubtful, a rising vote was called for and the association refused to table the motion by a very large vote. Dr. Henry then resumed the floor and expressed the opinion that the medical colleges were responsible for the discredit which had fallen upon the profession on account of inconi-, petent doctors. This remark was greeted with applause, and some hisses were heard. “There is no use hissing,” exclaimed Dr. Henry, with considerable warmth. “I am an old soldier, and I know that the men who are hissing have some private ax to grind.” He then continued his remarks, urging the necessity of elevating the standard of education in the profession. Dr. Robbins, chairman of the section on the state of medicine, said he intended to report a resolution in regard to medical colleges before adjournment of the association. The resolution of Dr. Benjamin was then adopted, and the association adjourned.

MILITARY FINANCIERING. How Swa'm Loaned Money and Took a Bill of Sale on an Officer's Piano. Washington, May 7.—The Swaim court ot inquiry met this morning. More than two hours were occupied in reading the report of the proceedings yesterday, and the statements made hy counsel and the testimony taken. Mr. Bateman then continued his testimony. Ho testified to the circumstances under which he had withdrawn his charges, made April 16, which, he said, were that General Swaim had agreed to secure withdrawal of the suit against him (Batemen) on the due bill about which the trouble arose, and to surrender this due-bill and refer the whole matter to arbitration. Following this the court-room was cleared while the court considered the question whether the testimony of Bateman in regard to the charge of negotiation of fraudulent pay accounts should be heard in private. The court decided to hear the testimony in public. Mr. Bateman stated, in reference to the negotiation of pay voucher's, that Colonel Morrow had come to his office in company with Col. McKibben. of the army, with a letter of introduction from General Swaim. Colonel Morrow said he wanted to borrow some money; the firm rejected bis application. On the same day, later in the afternoon, General Swaim came into the office of Bateman & Cos. As usual, he and the witness went out for a drive in the witness’s coupe, and he asked the witness why tire firm had not let Morrow have that money. He told the witness that Morrow was a colonel on General Sherman's staff, and was perfectly food for the sum in question. 'he witness then decided to advance Colonel Morrow a moderate amount, and the latter came in next morning with his vouchers already fixed up, and the firm advanced him $1,500 on them. The witness thought they covered four months' pay; they were for the months next succeeding the day on which the advance was made. Tiro witness learned afterwards that there were three other vouchers out, covering the same four months’ pay from Colonel Morrow. A sow days afterwards, Swaim was in his office, and he and the witness talked about the Morrow matter. Swaim, he said, told him that lie (Swaim) had himself loaned Colonel Morrow some money and had taken a bill of sale on his piano for security. This statement angered the witness, and he asked Swaim: ‘'How in the devil is it that you refused to loan a brother officer SIOO or $125 without taking a bill of sale for his piano, and ♦ben send him to me with duplicated pay accour c for a loan of sl,sool’’ Swaim then told him that Morrow was going to use this money to take other vouchers up. The witness then wrote to McKibben to call at his office, and Colonel Morrow came down. The witness said to him: “You perpetrated a fraud upon us.’’ He blustered up and said: “How dare you say that I committed a fraud!” He denied ’ that there was any fraud on his part, and asked if General Swaim had not told him that he (Morrow) hod taken to him (Swaim) a schedule of his debts and had told him the vouchers would bo taken up before they were due. Colonel Morrow afterward pleaded that perhaps he had got into this trouble by not un-dei-standing iinauces. The witness stated that it afterward turned out that the vouchers on which the money had been drawn by Colonel Morrow called for about $9,000 or four on live months’ pay, and that the vouchers he had received were the last of the lot. These vouchers had been gathered up from different |bsnkors who held thorn and an arrangement entered into between the bankers to hold them. Mr. Chandler then introduced a statement in writing, which, he said, embodied the charges alluded to in the last paragraph of Batemen’s letter to the Secretary of War, which had been called for by the court yesterday. This was, in substance, that after •v-rtain bankers of this city became involved with Morrow's pay vouchers, they made the best arrangement they could to protect themselves, all of which was known. Ac cording to this statement, Gen. Swaim’s letter claimed that there was about SIOO due him from Morrow, and he came to Bateman with a demand that the bankers should pay him that sum, threatening, if they did not, that ho would so “squeeze” Morrow at the War Bepartrnent that none.of the bankers would get their money from Morrow on these vouchers. After reading this statement. Judge Advocate Scott announced that it wag probable be would find it necessary, further along, to ask for some further specifications in respect to the charges in the latter part of Bateman’s letter, as ho dhl not believe this statement embraced all there was to be offered. Adjourned. MINOR MENTION, Mr. Phelps Fears Ills Utterances Might Be Mistaken for Those of Blaine. Kpcrisl to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 7. —It appears that the part that William Walter Phelps, the New Jersey congressman, has taken in the Blaine Edmunds squabble has affected him a good deal. Phelps is a member of the House committee on foreign affairs. On Saturday last, during the discussion of the bill to further restrict Chinese immigration, someone approached him on the floor and inquired: “You will speak to the question before the House, Hr. Phelps!” “Wall, no sir.” he replied, “I would like to speak on this measure, but whatever I might

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say on the subject would be taken as the reflection of 51r. Blaine!" There has been a good deal of fun nwide over the remark to day, when it was first made known. It is especially ludicrous to those who are familiar with the handsome manner iu which Vice-president Edmunds “done up" Mr. Phelps, and the cause which he sought to defend. Transfer of Itaron Van Eiscndecker. Washington, May 7.—Baron Van Eisendecker, who has represented the German government at this capital for a little more than a year, received a dispatch to-day from his home office, informing him of his transfer to Baden, and of the appointment of -Mr. Van Albensleben, now minister at the Hague, to succeed him here. The position to which Baron Van Eisendecker has been transferred has recently been made vacant by the death of the official holding it. Notes amt Personalities. Special to tho Indisnapolis Journal. Washington, Slay 7. —Harry R. W'ysor and wife, of Muncie, after an extensive wedding tour South, have arrived here. They will start to their home, via the Baltimore & Ohio, to-morrow. Clem Studebaker, of South Bend, delegate to the general M. E. Conference at Philadelphia, is here. The Post, of this city, the Democratic organ, is very desparate in its abuse of the forty-one Democrats who voted to strike the enacting clause out of the Morrison hill. It prints their names iu black type this morning, and denounces them as renegades. Dr. Wm. Boyden, of Muneie. who is here attending the meeting of the American Medical Association, lost his pocket book containing about S4O cash and railroad tickets for a trip down the Potomac and home. The President has appointed Colgate Hoyt, of New York; Edmond L. Joys, of New Jersey; 11. L. Merriman, of Iowa; Prank Colpetzor, of Nebraska: and D. R. Anthony, of Kansas, as Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, to serve until the next regular election of said company.

KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS. Watterson Enthusiastically Received and Carlisle Recommended for President. Frankfort, Kv., May 7.—The Democratic State convention to select delegates to the Chicago convention met here to-day. Charles Offutt, of Bourbon, was chosen temporary chairman, and Thomas P. Caruthers, of Newport, secretary. Hon. B. Winchester, of Louisville, was chosen permanent chairman. Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier-Jour-nal, was appointed chairman of the committee on resolutions. He was loudly called for by the convention, and when he appeared on the platform with the resolutions in his hand the house rose as one man and cheered him vociferously. He made a brief speech, congratulating the Kentucky Democrats on their wisdom and courage. He reviewed the situation in a few eloquent sentences, and then read the following resolutions, which wore unanimously adopted by the convention amid great applause: “The Democrats of Kentucky, in convention assembled, declare: “First—-That we pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patriots, as embodied in the platforms of the national Democratic conventions of 1876 and 1880. “•Second—We do especially renew our declarations of hostility to centridization as that dangerom? spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of the government, and thus to create, whatever the form, a real despotism, with all its snbsidies to corporations, and grants withont consideration of the public property, and we again express our conviction of the urgent necessity of the general and thorough reform of the civil service. “Third—We do especially deny the right of the government to surrender its taxing power to corporations or individuals, which is the result of both the theory and the practice of the Republican party; and we denounce the present tariff, which burthens the people with excessive war taxes in time of peace, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequalityaindfal.se pretenses. We arraign the Republican party as the creator and defender of a system which has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few. which has prohibited imports that might purchase the products of American labor, and degraded American commerce from the first to an inferior rank on the high seas; which has cut down the sales of American manufactures at homo and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It costs the tax-payers five times more than it yields to the Treasury; it promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, enriches the few by forcing bounties from the many, and favors dishonest and bankrupt merchants. We assert the doctrines of the Constitution, that all taxation shall be exclusively for revenue, and demand that no more revenue shall be collected than is required to meet the expenses and obligations of the government economically administered. “Resolved, That, believing that no geographical line should exist iu this country as a test of eligibility to any office in the gift, of the the people, but that the standard of honesty. . competency, fidelity and constitutional citiaenship alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends to the Democracy of the Union, for the presidency of the United .States him whose elevation to the third office in the nation was the first step to the obliteration of the seam left by the late civil war, who was the first to lead his own party hack to its own national platform of steady approach toward the removal of obstructions to trade, the foremost exponent of all the living Democratic principles of to-day—Hon. John G. Carlisle. Hon. Henry Watterson, J. Stoddard Johnson. James A. McKenzie and Thomas L. Jones, were elected delegates at large. Mr. Watterson, although not a member of the convention, and not a candidate, received the highest vote of the gentlemen selected. He accepted the honor, and will, as he has done in the past, lead the delegation. _ Commissioner Fink’s Alleged Resignation. New York, May 7. —Notwithstanding the denial by Commissioner Fink that ho had resigned, the morning newspapors here on Thursday will state positively that he has resigned. A member of the Trunk-line committee, late to-night, stated that the resignation of Fink had been submitted to the committee. Little Oil Failures. Pittsburg, May 7. —Three small oil failures occurred here to-day. C. W. Newlen and J. H. Thompson, of the Pittsburg Exchange, were unable to meet contracts, and 111,000 barrels of their oil were sold out under the rule. A. A. Adams, of -the Petroleum Exchange, also failed to clear his sheet, and 30,000 barrels were sold out for his account. The loss of the two former is $l,lOO, and the latter $2,300. Steamship News. Baltimore, May 7.—Arrived: Habsburg, from Bremen. New York, May 7.—Arrived: Italy, from London; Amerique, from Havre. London, May 7.—Arrived: Gellert, Donau, Aurania. Maasdam, from New York; Lord Gough, British Prince, Vaderland, from Philadelphia; City of Boston, Hibernian, from Boston. _ Austin Buoll, a raftsman from Pennsylvania, was found murdered, under a pile of straw in the eastern part of Louisville, yesterday. He had been struck on the head, then choked to death with a towel and hid under the straw. Hood's Sarsaparilla Ts designed to meet the wants of those who need a medicine to build them up, give them an appetite, purify their blood, and oil up the machinery of their bodies. No other article takes hold of the system and hits exactly the spot like Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It works like magic, reaching every* part of the human body through the blood, giving to all renewed life and energy. $1 a bottle; six for $5.

THE LATEST FOBEIGN NEWS. Mild Sensation Caused by Our Alleged War Ships in the Mediterranean. A Railway To Be Constructed for Use in tlic Coming Egyptian Campaign—Death of Judah P. Benjamin. OUR RELATIONS WITH TURKEY. A Sensation Caused by a Promised Visit by American Vessels. Constantinople, May 7.—The American squadron in the Mediterranean have arrived at Tenedets. Admiral Baldwin, its commandor, tolegraphed the American minister, Gen. Wallace, his intention to come to Constantinople, and the announcement has created a sensation in government circlos. Assym Pasha, one of the Ministers of State, informed Gen. Wallace that the irades permit the Porto to stop American ships at the Dardanelles, as America did not sign the treaty of Paris, which regards tho Dardanelles as a free sea. It is doubtful whether Gen. Wallace will ask for a firman to permit the passage of vessels. The Ottoman minister at Washington has protested against a bill before Congress, which claims that American consuls in the Turkish empire have jurisdiction over all cases to which Americans are parties: other nations, lie pointed out. claim consular jurisdiction only when both parties to the dispute are its own subjects, while America wished to extend it also to cases in which one party was an Ottoman subject. The Porte will not recognize America's claims in this regard. Another dispute was created by America's official indorsement of Wallace s views in denunciation of the treaty of commerce which the Porte made in 1883 as invalid. General Wallace has renewed his protest in regard to tho petroleum stores, which is now made moro powerful by the strong protest of Russia. What Is Known of the Dispute in Washington. Washington, May 7.—Tho attention of Senator Pendleton, author of the Senate bill to establish consular and other courts, and to define their jurisdiction, was called to day to an Associated Press dispatch from Constantinople, stating that the Ottoman minister at Washington had protested against that bill, and that the Porte would not recognize the views of America on the subject. He said he had not heard of any protest, and that if one had been made it was doubtless based upon a misapprehension. The measure was designed to secure to American citizens everywhere trial for offenses in accordance with the principles which obtain at home, in place of the present irregular and arbitrary methods. He expressed the hope that the bill, which was now on the Speaker's table in the House, would bo acted upon during the present session. Its importance could not be overestimated. Congressman Hitt, of Illinois, who has charge of a similar measure pending before the House committee on foreign affairs, said the original treaty with Turkey was framed in 1830, and the document, which was submitted to the Senate for ratification, conferred ample jurisdictional powers upon American minis ters and consuls in criminal cases to which American citizens were parries, but when that power was sought to be exercised thirty years ago. the Turkish authorities made the point that the Turkish version contained no such provision. A discrepancy appeared to have grown out of the translation of a certain Turkish word. This, Mr. Hitt assumed, was the basis of the Ottoman minister's protest in the case at Smyrna, which arose under the treaty. It was found impossible to reconcile the conflicts of jurisdiction, and the alleged criminal was placed in jail, from which he escaped dur ing the night, both parties conniving at it as the only way out of the entanglement.

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN. Death of the Ex-Secretary of State of the Southern Confederacy. London, May 7.—Judah P. Benjamin, the distinguished lawyer and advocate and ex-memoer of the government of the Southern Confederacy, is dead. He died in his apartments on the Avenue Jena, Paris. He had been in failing health ever since he fell while descending from a tramway car, several years ago. Judah Peter Benjamin was born in Santo Domingo, in 1812, of Jewish parents who emigrated to Savanah. Ga., in 1816. He entered Yale College in 1825. but left without graduating. In 1831 he went to New Orleans, studied law. supporting himself by teaching; was admitted to the bar in-1834, and rose rapidly to a high position in tho profession. lie also became prominent as a politician, attaching him self to the Whig party. In 1852 he was chosen to the Senate of the United States, where he soon allied himself with the Democratic party, in consequence of the action of the two parties on the slavery qnpstion. In 185!) he was reelected to the Senate, his colleague being John Slidell. On December 11, 1860, in a speech in the Senate, he avowed his adhesion to the Southern cause, and on Peb. 4 he withdrew from the Senate, and was at once appointed Attorney-general in the provisional government of tho Confederacy. In August he was appointed acting Secretary of War, but resigned in February, 1862, on account of having been censured by a congressional committee. He stood high, however, in the confidence of Jefferson Davis, and was apDointed Secretary of State, which position he held until the downfall of the Confederacy. lie then" took up his residence in London, England, where he entered successfully into the practice of the legal profession. in which he became one of the most emi nent lawyers in tho kingdom. THE EGYPTIAN TROUBLE. A Railway To Be Constructed for Use In the Proposed Campaign. London. May 7.—The government has sent an order to Cairo directing that the recommendation of Captain Molynux in his recent report of the survey of the upper Nile he executed. Captain Molynux recommended that a railway be constructed by the English government beyond Wady Haifa. The plant for the road will be sent from Cairo at the earliest practicable moment, and the construction of seventy miles of the road will bo hastened so it may be made available for an autumn campaign. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Provisions of the German Rill for Protection Against Explosives. Burlin', May 7.—Tho proposed bill on explosives which was submitted to the committee of the Bundesratli makes it necessary to obtain authority in order to make or sell, import or possess explosives, and provides that illegal use or possession of explosives, or public excitement to anarchy by speech, placard or pamphlet, shall be punished with penal serviude, or, when attended with loss of life, with death. Cable Notes. Dissension exists among the Chinese and Black Flags, and desparate lighting hasoccurred between them at Lao Ki. At London, yesterday, the Earl of Shaftes burg unveiled a statue of William Tyndale, the martyr burned at the stake at Vilvarden in 1536, on account of his religious teaching. The statuo stands in a conspicioua place on tic Thames Embankment. Fatally Shot by an Insane Man. Burs Spin nos. Mo., May 7.—John Gill, a shoemaker, presumably insane, shot and fatal';/ wounded John Stanley, this morning, while

the latter was passing his shop with his father, Daniel Stanley. The father, having a shotgun, turned to fire at Gill, but was prevented by bystanders, until Gill had shot at the crowd once or twice. Then he was released, and filled Gill's faco full of small shot, putting out both eyes. THE LOST SfrATE OF FLORIDA. [Concluded from First Page.] from the icy cold water, though the sea was calm nevertheless they did not lose heart. One of; their number, a man named Donaldson, was underneath the capsized boat until they were picked up by one of the other boats, in the morning. When she capsized he kept his hold and went over with her, and remained on the inside talking to himself and moaning until he swooned. His companions on the outside were unable to assist him. In tho morning, when they were picked up, the bottom of the boat had to be broked to get him out. He presented a horrible appearance, from his long exposure to the waves and lack of fresh air. A few days afterward, however, he got all right again. During the thirty-five hours they were afloat, they had not a drop of water te drink, and wore beginning to feel all the horrors of extreme thirst when rescued by the bark Theresa, of the kindness of whose officers and crew, and those of the Louisa, of Cardiff, and of the Titania. the survivors all speak in the highest terms of gratitude and praise. Criticisms of Ocean Racing. New York Herald. A shipping man of prominence in this city and a graduate of Annapolis, though not now connected with the United State naval service, said, in commenting on the occurrence [the failure of the City of Rome to answer signals] and the news already in tho possession of the public: “There should be an exact accounting given by the officers of the City of Rome for their neglect in not bringing in full particulars from that sailing craft. There is altogether too great a laxity about observing the old time rules of the courtesy of the sea. It seems that in this case tho Rome rushed by without making any response to the signals. “Look at that abstract of the log filed there,” said the officer, as he pointed to the abstract on the rack at the Maritime Exchange and indicated particularly the entry, iu large figures, that the trip had been made in so many days, hours and minutes. “There are too many ‘greyhounds’ now afloat Every line must have its pet racer, and whether there are bets or not on the races it is pretty certain that the captain who is the best on the *whoop-her-up’ business is the one who gets the easiest berths and the most consideration on her arrival. It is easy for the Rome officers to say that a haze obscured the signals, but I guess the real haze was the blue cloud of wrath which would gather about that captain's head if he * spent an hour even in slacking up and learning whether the sailing craft needed help.” ANOTHER COLLISION. Additional Particulars of the Sinking of tlie Romano by the Nevada. St. Johns, N. F., May 7.—Captain Bremmer, of tho steamship Nevada, of the Gnion line, gives the following additional particulars of the collision with the Romano: “On Monday, the 4th, at noon, in latitude 42° s O', longitude 47° 25', while on the way from New York te Liverpool, four days out, we collided with the Romano, of Hull, belonging to the Wilson line. We struck the ship on the port side abaft midships, bursting into the engine room. The Romano sunk m less than an honr. Her passengers and crew came on board in their own boats. The weather was calm at the time, hut there was a heavy swell. Our collision compartment filled with water, and our bows were beaten in from the forefoot to the deck. When the cargo had been shifted ami temporary repairs effected, we bore up for St. Johns. On Sunday we fell in with the St. Laurent, and transhipped the passengers of the Romano, tiyo in number, her crew and our own passengers to that ship. The agents of the Wilson line at Boston state that the steamer Romano, sunk by* the steamer Nevada, was valued at $200,000. The Wilsons arc their own underwriters. The cargo was a general one,, and not exceptionally valuable, con sis ting mainly of small lots, insured by shippers.

DAILY' WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Departs ent, f Office of the Chief Signal Officer. / Washinoton, May 8, la.m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Fair weather, preceded by local rains in tho upper Ohio valley, northerly winds, higher barometer, slight rise in temperature. For Upper Lako Region—Wanner, fair weather, variable winds, shifting to southerly in northern part. General Observations. War Department, I Washington, May 7,10:31 p. M. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at alsl tations. 3 *~\ £? rt g E J !. * 3 f 5 Ls g. 33 * is S’ r STATION. £ § : 13 - ? r s ii ■ s ' ; M:: S : • ‘ j * | * e* * Bismarck, Dak '30.18. 61 j M !--. .(Clear. Cairo, Til 30.01 01 NW '..... Cloudy. Chattanooga, Term . i Chicago, 111 129.95; 50 N I jFair. Cincinnati, O 129.95 j GO NE Cloudy. Columbus, O i 1 1 Davenport, la 30.01 21 N Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak !30.15; 51J NK Clear. Denver. Col . 30.19 . r >7 ; S Cleat*. Des Moines. Ia '30.11' 56 j N ;Clear. Dodge City. Kan . ..'*30.21! 56 N .Clear. Ft. Assiniboine. Mta 30.14 59| NW Clear. Fort Buford, Dak... 30.05 55J W Clear. Fort Custer, Mont- - ;30.11 551 W j Fair. Fort Elliott, Tex...'30.17 55 N j Clear. Fort Gibson, Ind. T. ; ! ! Fort Sill, Ind. T— .1 ' j -. Galveston. Tex 30.06) 70j N Fair. Indianapolis, Ind... j‘29.88' 58 N .07 Cloudy. Keokuk. Ia j30.02[ G 1 Cal m .02 Lt. rain. La Crosse, Wi* 30.01' 59| N ] Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. '30.12 59j N Cloudy. Little Rock, Ark.....30.03j N Clear. Louisville. Ky 29.87 Gl! SW .Fair. Memphis, Tenn 30.01 (53' NW 'Fair. Moore head. Minn... 30.04 58 8 Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn 1 29.95 j 62, NW Fair. North Platte, Neb.. 30.18 50 E Clear. Omaha. Neb 30.20, 58 N .Clear’. Pittsburg, Pa 29.84, 58, E .03 Lt. rain. San Antonio, Tex...! 1 j Shreveport, La ; 30.02 0(5 W Cloudy. Springfield, 111 30.01 58, N .54 Clear. St. Louis, Mo 30.00 SS ( W .01;Fair. Stockton. Tex 30.23 58; S ' Clear. St. Paul. Minn 130.06 GO NW ... . Clear. Vicksburg, Miss.... (30.02 71 NW Cloudy. Yankton, I). T • 30.14, 55 N j < lear. New Orleans. La ... j 29.94 j 77 SW 'Cloudy. Las Animas, Col 30.1(5' 53; E I .Clear. Fort Smith. Ark.... 30.07; 03; N Cloudy. Salt Lake City, U. T. 130.17, 58 Calm ' Clear. El Paso, Tex....... ! 30.08! GG E Clear. Tho Death of Clarence Howerton. Clarence Howerton, which is the right name of the young man that took the overdose of morphine in Crone’s saloon last week, and not Howard, as frequently printed, was born near Law renceburg, Feb. 1, 1860. A-t the time of bis death lie was living with his sister. Mrs. Darling, on West street. Ho left his home on Sunday morning, and the family expected him back as usual, but, as ho was in the habit of staying away over night sometimes, they were not alarmed about him until they heard of his death. They are inclined to think that he did not take the fatal dose with the intention of committing suicide. He had often told his sister that he could take fifteen cents’ worth of morphine without hurting him and that he once took a dose that ! put- hint to sleep in the evening and lie slept r‘.verity four hours. He came to this city with . small fortune and it bad slipped through his : ;:ds, and if suicide was intended that is the -apposed cause. His mother and two other | sisters arrived hero them Lawrenceburg WednesI da\ tdoming and ilfo funeral services were held i at his home on West street, at 4 ojclock in the • afternoon. His remains were interred at 1 Crown Hill cemetery.

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